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In one of the early games, one of the teams (except for one player, Alejandro Villanueva) remained in the locker room for the national anthem. In one of the late games, both teams will stay inside. Via Albert Breer of TheMMQB.com, the Seahawks and Titans will stay inside for the playing of the...
A number of NFL teams and owners have offered statements this weekend in response to President Donald Trump’s calls for them to fire players who protest during the national anthem. Some of the statements have taken direct issue with the President’s comments, including one from Packers president...
On a Sunday that is expected to see national anthem protests continue to spread, thanks to the strong criticism levied against the NFL and its players by the President, the question becomes whether any coaches will become directly involved. One coach has issued a statement that suggests he’ll...
Setting aside for now an intrusion of politics into sport that has caused a pair of reality-show worlds to collide, there will be football on Sunday (we think), and there will be a hope that the games are as exciting as they were on Thursday. One reason for the Thursday excitement: The men...
The Cowboys will be shorthanded in the secondary against the Cardinals on Monday night. The official injury report is out, and Dallas cornerbacks Chidobe Awuzie and Nolan Carroll have both been ruled out. Awuzie suffered a hamstring injury and Carroll suffered a concussion last week against the...
The anthem protests began a year ago, with 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. On Saturday, the owner of the 49ers responded to the comments from the Commander-in-Chief regarding players who choose to do the same. “The callous and offensive comments made by the President are contradictory to...
After spending 12 seasons in San Francisco, Frank Gore signed with the Colts in 2015 thinking he could earn a Super Bowl ring. It hasn’t worked out that way. The Colts missed the playoffs in each of Gore’s first two seasons in Indianapolis, and this year they look like perhaps the worst team in...
President Donald Trump’s words last night were inflammatory enough to get the NFL to rebuke him (even if they didn’t mention his name). And a number of players are using even stronger terms to respond to Trump’s profane contention that players who protest during the national anthem should be...
Among the various injures sustained last night for the 49ers was an ankle sprain for defensive lineman Tank Carradine. Coach Kyle Shanahan told reporters on Friday that Carradine could be headed for injured reserve. “Tank has got a high ankle sprain,” Shanahan told reporters. “We haven’t gotten...
In postgame interviews, Kyle Shanahan didn’t have much to say about the offensive pass interference penalty called against his team late in Thursday’s game. The 49ers coach said then that he “didn’t see it.” After seeing it, Shanahan said a lot by saying little. “I saw a very good route,”...
Seahawks defensive lineman Cliff Avril cost his team 15 yards Sunday against the 49ers. He cost himself $9,115. That’s what the league fined him this week for a facemask penalty. During Carlos Hyde‘s 27-yard run with seconds remaining in the first half, Avril inexplicably grabbed tight end...
Seahawks defensive lineman Cliff Avril cost his team 15 yards Sunday against the 49ers. He cost himself $9,115. That’s what the league fined him this week for a facemask penalty. During Carlos Hyde‘s 27-yard run with seconds remaining in the first half, Avril inexplicably grabbed tight end...
Titans running back Derrick Henry could make the second start of his career Sunday. Tennessee lists DeMarco Murray as questionable with a hamstring injury. Henry has 20 carries for 117 yards and a touchdown this season, while Murray has 21 carries for 69 yards and no touchdowns. “[Henry] appears...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has spoken, sort of. Ignoring the league’s request for a ruling by September 26 on the emergency motion to stay the injunction that allows Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott to play while the legal challenge to his six-game suspension proceeds...
Week Three kicked off on Thursday with a Rams win and it continues with 14 more games on Sunday, which means that the 28 teams in those games submitted their final injury reports of the week on Friday. Questionable players are uncertain to play, doubtful players are unlikely to play and out...
So why did officials kill the 49ers’ final drive with a tacky-tack offensive pass interference call on Thursday night? It’s possibly a result of the periodic reminders that the league office provides to game officials. As one source explained it to PFT, the league routinely sends clips and memos...
The NFL’s television ratings have been a mixed bag early this season, but the league-owned network is getting good news. For the second week in a row, NFL Network’s Thursday Night Football ratings are up significantly from NFL Network’s games last season: Last night’s Rams-49ers game had 7.4...
Despite photos suggesting a sparse crowd on Thursday night, the 49ers say that more than 60,000 attended the home game against the Rams. The team also distributed 97 percent of the 68,500 available tickets. So why the images of a largely empty venue? The game started during rush hour in the Bay...
If an appeals court rules the NFL’s way, Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott could begin a six-game suspension as early as Monday night’s game against the Cardinals. Despite previous talk that the league wouldn’t suspend a player later in the week than Tuesday because teams need time to game...
Bills kicker Stephen Hauschka wasn’t looking to be the face of a movement. But he does think the movement needs more faces which look like his. Moved by the player memo to the league asking for help with awareness of issues of racial inequality and criminal justice reform, Hauschka said he...